Ian Holm Quotes

I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

Ian Holm

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• It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Desire
  • Play

• I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Business
  • Find
  • Act

• I don't write listening to music, and in a way it seems silly that any writer should have to explain why not, as it's possibly no different from saying you don't eat gourmet dinners or play tennis while you're at the keyboard.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Why

• Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men are either fools or knaves, we run excessive risk in making such folk our companions.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Risk
  • Run

• Being evil is easy.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Evil
  • Easy
  • Being

• Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • History
  • Dangerous
  • Ride

• We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Day
  • Doing
  • Everyday

• Over the years, humans have managed to incorporate nearly every element, light and weighty, common and obscure, into our daily lives. And given how small atoms are and how many of them there are all around us, it's almost certain that your body has at least brushed against an atom of every single natural element on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Small
  • Light
  • Single

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Life
  • View

• I've had to be tough my whole life.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Tough
  • Had

• I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Think
  • Awesome

• Things aren't always clear at the beginning of a relationship. Be up-front. Don't play on her confusion or vulnerability. Women want and appreciate clarity.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Up
  • Women
  • Relationship

• I have come to the conclusion that while a candidate's faith matters, what's most important is how he or she applies that faith.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Faith
  • Candidate

• Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.

  

  Tabitha King
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Process

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.

  

  Mackenzie Phillips
  • Evil
  • Wise
  • Speak

• I remember, as a boy of 17 years of age, this was a fascinating thing for me: how we human beings breathe out carbon dioxide into the air, the leaves of plants pick this carbon dioxide up, and the plant gives off oxygen, which we can breathe in and keep our life going.

  

  Percy Julian
  • Life
  • Up
  • Remember

• When I was 15, they changed the playground rules because I was dominating everything and blocking everything that came my way.

  

  Moses Malone
  • Changed
  • Dominating
  • Playgrounds

• I come from a place where I find it hard to identify with a label.

  

  Amber Heard

• Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

  

  Hayley Mills
  • Game
  • Golf
  • Programming

• I did everything pretty cliche as an actor in New York. I read the trades, I sent out 'head shots.'

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Actors
  • Trade
  • Shots

• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager